School of Law in the News

November 1 - 15, 2005

SU students help business owners and gain experience
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
November 15, 2005
Law and business students gain valuable experience and provide services to actual clients through the Entrepreneurship Center.

‘Nutty 9th’ Circuit Court could be bound for breakup
The News Tribune (Tacoma)
November 14, 2005
Visiting Professor Steve Calandrillo comments on the efforts to split the 9th Circuit, now the nation’s largest and busiest judicial circuit by far.

Bar None! The Social Impact of Testing Indian Law on Washington’s Bar Exam
Mondaq.com
November 11, 2005
Several hundred bar leaders joined tribal dignitaries and community members at the Seattle University School of Law to commemorate the decision to include federal Indian jurisdiction on the state bar exam.
(A free registration is required.)

Wal-Mart film challenges students to fight injustice
The Spectator
November 10, 2005
The Center on Corporations, Law & Society showed a PBS/Frontline documentary “Is Wal-Mart Good For America?” on November 1 and had a post-screening discussion, led by Associate Professor Mark Chinen.

Decision opens door, but not too wide
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
November 4, 2005
Associate Professor Julie Shapiro discusses the state Supreme Court ruling declaring a non-biological lesbian mother a “defacto” parent.

Eleven Hanford whistleblowers win in Kennewick
Washington State Trial Lawyers Association Trial News
November 2005
Attorney Jack Sheridan thanks Dana Gold, Director of the Center on Corporations, Law and Society, for her earlier work on a wrongful discharge case involving 11 Hanford whistleblowers. A jury found in favor of the whistleblowers and awarded $4.7 million in damages in September.
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